696 cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriophyton. 



ALPINE CENTBAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 15-17,000 ft, 

 J. D. H. 



RootstocTc stout; stem 4-6 in., stout, simple, naked below ; wool on leaves, bracts 

 and calyx | in. long, white, very soft, hardly silky. Leaves very close set, imbricating, 

 spreading or deflexed, l|-2 in. diam., base broadly cuueate, nerves flabellate. 

 Bracts 1-1J in. broad, broadly cuneate, membranous, deeply toothed ; bracteoles 

 filiform. Calyx hidden amongst the leaves, 1 in. long ; lobes triangular, finely 

 pointed. Corolla 1 in., galea pubescent. Nutlets | in. diam. A very remarkable 

 Labiate, which should be placed near Lamium, from which the broad galea and nutlets 

 distinguish it. 



51. GOBXPHOSTEBXIKA, Wall. 



Perennial, stellately pubescent or tomentose herbs; roots often with 

 elongate tubers. Whorls 6-8-fld., dense- or lax-fld., axillary or in terminal 

 spikes. Calyx 10-nerved, subequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube slender ; 

 throat dilated, not annulate; upper lip galeate, lower broadly 3-fid. 

 Stamens ascending; anthers conniving, cells parallel, transverse, naked. 

 Disk symmetric or produced behind. Style-lobes subequal. Nutlets 

 (drupes) various, glabrous or pubescent, hilum broad, pericarp thick corky 

 or fleshy. Cotyledons often unequal. Species 16, Indian, Malayan and 

 Chinese. 



* Upper or all the whorls in terminal or axillary spikes. 



1. G. strobilinum, Wall. Cat. 2151 ; stem scurfily scabrid or tomen- 

 tose, leaves elliptic-ovate subacute crenate scabrid above densely tomentose 

 beneath, whorls in a dense stout terminal tomentose spike, bracts 

 broadly elliptic-ovate exceeding the calyx, calyx in., lobes triangular 

 acute. Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 12, Lab. 647, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xii. 550. 



BURMA ; Prome, Rangoon, &c., Wallich, M' Clelland. DISTEIB. Ava. 



Leaves 4-10 by 2-6 in., narrowed into a petiole -3 in. Splice sometimes 1 ft. 

 and 2 in. broad ; bracts 1 in, and under. Calyx 5 in. Corolla twice as long. 

 Nutlets ^ in., turgid. 



%^ VAE. viridis ; leaves more membranous narrowly elliptic-lanceolate finely pubes- 

 ^ent beneath, flowers larger. G. viride, Wall. Cat. 2153 ; Benth, II. c. Tenasserim, 

 Wallich ; Moulmein, Parish. 



VAE. Heyneana ; stem petioles spikes and leaves beneath tomentose or densely 

 woolly, " flowers blueish with a purple tinge/' Wight. G. Heyneanum, Wall. Cat. 

 2152 ; Benth. II. c.; Wight III. t. 176 bis, f. 9, and Ic. t. 1456. Deccan, from the 

 Bababoodan Hills to Travaricore. 



2. Cr. pedunculatum, Benth. mss. tomentose, leaves long-petioled 

 3-12 by 1 7 in., ovate or elliptic-ovate denticulate pubescent above, whorls 

 crowded in short axillary peduncled oblong heads or spikes, bracts longer 

 than the calyx ovate serrate, calyx in., lobes triangular acute. 



KHASIA MTS. ; below Nurtiung, J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Stem long, flexuous, prostrate, rooting below. Leaves distant. Spikes 1-4 in. 

 long, axillary and from below the leaves or even from the rooting portion of the stem; 

 peduncle tomentose, -1 in. ; bracts and calyx red-brown. Corolla f in., glabrous, 

 pale sulphur colour. Nutlets \ in., subglobose, rugose. 



3. G-. acaule, Kurz mss.; stemless, densely pubescent, leaves 4-8 

 by 3-4^ in. elliptic obtuse crenate, petiole very stout long or short, whorls 

 in a very short velvety terminal sessile spike softly tomentose, bracts much 

 longer than the calyx ovate crenate, calyx f in., lobes lanceolate. 



